On the day after Canada Day, not on Canada Day itself, a group of
aggrieved and ashamed Canadians, and compassionate Americans, will perform
the Funeral Motorcade for the Seals from Victoria to Campbell River and
back. As the procession goes through Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo,
Parksville, Qualicum, Comox and Courtenay, they will be joined by local
activists and their vehicles, culminating in the "Grand Arrival" back in
Victoria in the afternoon.

“340,000 is a large number, sure, but people take a glance at it, raise
their eye-brow a little, shelve the number somewhere in the left brain,
and go about their business. I want to show them what 340,000 seals
actually look like., lined up on both sides of the highway,” says Anthony
Marr, founder of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE), long time
anti-hunting-activist. “Still no reaction? How about dogs? 340,000 dead
and skinned dogs along the highway. Would we let it happen?”

This will be the very first of such events on Anthony Marr’s
35-states-and-6-provinces-in-5-months Compassion for Animals Road
Expedition #4 (CARE-4 - see www.HOPE-CARE.org). The second Funeral
Motorcade for the Seals on this tour will be between Calgary and Edmonton,
Alberta, on July 16, Sunday, organized by Sea Shepherd Calgary Chapter.

Victoria anti-sealing activist and event organizer Bruce Foerster says,
“The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine
mammals on earth and continues unabated despite there not being any
economic justification for the slaughter. This is a horrendous crime
against nature which is putting into serious question Canada’s claim of
being a civilized, compassionate and progressive society. This ‘hunt’ must
be exposed for the fraud which it is and stopped immediately if we are
ever going to take our place along other civilized nations who would never
tolerate such a barbaric and sadistic act being committed on their soil.”